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meetings and town hall meetings but has never truly been realized.
"We’ve lost busi- nesses and a number of items in downtown, and it really now is the time to refocus and to restore the core,” he said. “We understand that the city council and the city of Sanger have the annex- ation going out to High- way 180. This is going to be a tremendous boost for the city but that’s going to take years so in the meantime, we have realized that we have our work cut out for us.”
Reshifting the focus toward downtown he said is vital and needs to hap- pen sooner than later.
“Because that entire emphasis will be go- ing northeast once the annexation begins,” he said. “So this is what we’re about, first rollout is to paint it and they will come, beautification, at-
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keep or remove the signs. So the issue was brought before the council.
The council also had a contrast in opinions on the stop signs. Council members Matthew Tut- tle and Bob Beck both supported keeping the four-way stop, saying people driving on 10th Street were going to fast toward the intersection and would provide a haz- ard to pedestrians.
Mayor Mary Fast, on the other hand, said she
tracting businesses.” The revitalization committee was a com- bined effort that began with the city’s chamber
of commerce.
“The Sanger Cham-
ber started what’s called the Sanger For- ward Foundation,” said Tammy Wolfe, chamber president. “The Sanger Forward Foundation is a 501 C3, from there was how the downtown re- vitalization committee came about."
Wolfe said the Sanger Forward Foun- dation will also start a mural committee to continue painting works of art related to Sanger and its history.
“The Sanger Forward foundation will oversee these committees,” she said. “So everyone is working in tandem to beautify our downtown.”
Nicholson said revi- talizing downtown will include everything from painting, beautification and even alley clean-ups.
was opposed to the signs. She said there are plenty of stop signs downtown and despite some con- cerns about traffic speed felt there was enough vis- ibility at the intersection.
No one from the pub- lic commented on the issue. City Manager Ni- cole Zieba said that the council discussion was informational only, and the topic will come back for more discussion and vote at a future meeting.
The next scheduled Reedley City Council meeting is at 7 p.m. Tues- day, April 13.
“This also includes spray painting,” he said. “The concept there is that we use paint that is general purpose paint and we record the color of the paint so that if there are any require- ments to go back and paint that alleyway again we’ll have the col- or specs.”
For now, the revital- ization committee will fo- cus on volunteer work for paint projects and other beautification upgrades.
“They [revitalization committee members] are doers, so it’s excit- ing that we have both the creativity but also the motivation and the shared vision to make it work this time,” Nichol- son said.
Juanita Adame / Mid Valley Times
A building directly across 7th Street from Brehler Square sat empty on April 6. Attract- ing businesses to fill vacant downtown buildings will be a priority of the new Sanger Revitalization Committee.
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